Community Members,

Welcome to Agile Transitions, a new online community focused on the exchange of ideas and best practices associated with executive- and business-level issues related to Agile practices.

We'd like to hear about your Agile challenges and successes on various executive-focused topics, including IT governance, organization, budgeting and financing, risk management, HR issues and enterprise adoption and integration. And, we enourage you to participate in the discussions, share tips, pose questions for feedback. 

Topical areas within the community cover:

• Agile Transitions Group:  Change, Transformation
• Agile Executive Forum - PMO, Leadership, Coaching
• Agile Finance - Budgeting, Compliance, Portfolio
• Agile Readiness/Assessment - Models, Fitness, Tracking

Broader Q&A features let members pose questions to the online community for feedback. In addition, the site includes a resource library that serves as a searchable repository of useful information, including articles, white papers, reference materials and links to webinars.

In addition to this community site, we also work to share our collective expertise with the Agile community at-large through other resources--such as white papers, webinars, seminars, blogs, industry presentations and online communities.

Other knowledge-based offerings from ThoughtWorks you might find interesting include:

• Executive Panel Discussions: ThoughtWorks regularly hosts executive management panel discussions featuring the world’s foremost experts on technology related topics. For more information on the latest events please visit: (http://www.thoughtworks.com/upcoming-events).

• Professional Edge Webinar Series: ThoughtWorks regularly holds thought leadership events in many of its global offices, as part of the organization’s mission to improve the IT industry. The topic of offshore development will be explored during the company’s next webinar series scheduled for May 25 and 26. During this one hour webinar, participants will explore why product development is the one area where the notion of offshore continues to encounter resistance. ThoughtWorks team members will share their principles and techniques gleaned from more than sixteen years of experience in Agile methods, lean development, user-centered design and tried-and-true project management. (http://www.thoughtworks.com/upcoming-events)

• ThoughtWorks Studios Community: Even before ThoughtWorks Studios products became publically available, the company had a vision to facilitate a community space where customers could showcase how tools were utilized in their respective environments. The ThoughtWorks Studios Community site is devoted to allowing community members to exchange informat ion, including the ability to include screenshots, videos, code samples and templates in posts. It also allows for the ThoughtWorks Studios’ team and product developers to gain a common understanding of the challenges and accomplishments of the community (http://community.thoughtworks.com/)

Thanks again, for your interest in our community.  We hope to see you online.

Sincerely,

Adam Monago, VP Client Services, ThoughtWorks

     

Ross Pettit, Client Principal, ThoughtWorks